Hi All - I’m new to Plex and I’m having problems with compilations - it keeps grabbing an artist name from who knows where and renames a load of albums with this artist? When I investigated further it seems it found an artist on one compilation album that had several tracks and now thinks all compil…

I am not a music metadata expert, there are more qualified people on the forums for that. But what stands out to me is it auto-filling the “Album Artist” tag automatically. I suspect that might happen if your own metadata does not actually contain the “Album Artist” metadata flag already. Worth c…

Well I’m not sure, I have so many files that go so far back and some of them are from iTunes - but what’s crazy is the folder structure clearly says ‘Various Artists/Album Name/tracks’ but its not looking at that obviously and coming up with its own ideas… one thing I am learning not to do is ‘refre…

Yeah, Plex is way too much of a stickler for metadata. Mine was all over the place, because the way I’d play music is just dump my “Misc” folder into Winamp and let it shuffle. I had to cleanse my metadata, and start doing albums and stuff. Sucks. Half of my music files now are files I’d never p…

Well if I don’t ‘Prefer local metadata’ most of my albums in Plex have no genre, and that at least I know is in all files. Plex is flaky, no that’s not the right word - ‘pedantic’ - that’s the word. Also it is a little unusual in its treatment of metadata (where it gets what from and why) . It doesn…

[image] timiambeing: Would be more fun if volume normalisation worked That’s a Plex Pass feature.

[image] Divideby0: I had to cleanse my metadata, and start doing albums and stuff. Sucks. Half of my music files now are files I’d never play, but Plex acts all offended if I do not give it complete albums, or even make up my own albums Hah! Well I’ve just bought a CD transport and it doesn’…

**“**Volume normalization for music in Plex—specifically Loudness Leveling which functions similarly to ReplayGain—is no longer exclusive to Plex Pass when using the Plexamp app. While previously a premium feature, Plexamp is now free for all users and includes loudness leveling in its base function…

The only way to make Plex happy with your music library is to follow all the rules to the letter. It is downright neurotic. Make sure EVERYTHING has Artist and Album Artist filled out, and Album Artist can only be ONE artist name. Artist can use multiple names with a null separator. Make sure ever…

Yes I’m discovering that! Plex just renamed every ‘Various Artist’ artist for every compilation album I had careful updated as ‘Various Artists’ (in Plex!) to “Lightnin’ Hopkins, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Big Joe Williams”!!! Dozens of them I hadn’t noticed it rename when I did a rescan - I now…

Plex constantly renaming various artists albums

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OttoKerner February 10, 2026, 5:27am 5

Then there is something wrong with your approach/the files.

If you have enabled “prefer local metatags” in the properties of your music library, both your folder structure and the embedded meta tags in your files must be immaculate.

See Music library weird behavior - #2 by OttoKerner

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Plex constantly renaming various artists albums

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